Boykin v. State

This case involves a question of evidence and certain principles of law well settled in this jurisdiction.

Plaintiff in error, Will Boykin, was indicted and tried UDOn a charge of assault with intent to commit nrarder in the first degree. He was found -guilty of assault with *201intent to commit murder in the second degree. From the sentence imposed he took Avrit of error.

There is a single assignment of error. It challenges the soundness of the order of the court overruling defendant’s motion for a neAV trial. The grounds of the motion for neAV trial are (1) that, the verdict is contrary to law…